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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
SIGNS OF WAR
Earlier Monday, several top administration officials filed into the White House. The group included Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Also Monday, the administration invited congressional leaders to the White House for a meeting at 5:45 p.m. ET.
Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and their summit partners met Sunday at a U.S. air base in the Azores as the American-led military buildup in the Persian Gulf continued. More than 250,000 troops, a naval armada and an estimated 1,000 combat aircraft are in the region, ready to strike if and when the president gives the word.
The American public, by a 2-1 margin, supports military action against Iraq to remove Saddam, a slight increase in support from recent weeks, according to a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll out Monday.
There were unambiguous signs that war could occur within a short period of time.
The State Department on Sunday night ordered nonessential personnel and all family members to leave Israel, Kuwait and Syria in a precautionary move. The departure order updates an advisory last month that authorized those people to leave voluntarily.
? Deployments
OVER AT THE U.N.
Monday抯 fast-paced developments began when British Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock said at the United Nations that the three co-sponsors of the U.N. resolution were not going to call for a vote of the Security Council.
The dramatic announcement, ahead of closed-door Security Council talks on the Iraq crisis, came as the United States advised the United Nations to withdraw its inspectors from Baghdad, countries closed their embassies and foreign journalists left Iraq.
Ending weeks of silence on the issue, Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned military action against Iraq, saying earlier Monday that war would be a mistake that could imperil world security.
But British Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock singled out France for threatening to veto the resolution, which would have given Iraq an ultimatum to disarm by Monday or face military action.
揥e have had to conclude that council consensus will not be possible,?Greenstock said, flanked by U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte.
Negroponte said he thought the vote would have 揵een close.?
揥e regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration,?Negroponte said.
Moments later, French ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said that in one-on-one consultations in the past hours 搕he majority of the council confirmed they do not want a use of force.?
In a State Department news conference, Secretary of State Colin Powell said the crisis on Iraq was a 搕est the United Nations did not meet.?
作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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